Dynamic fault trees resolution: A conscious trade-off between analytical and simulative approaches

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 96, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1515-1526

  Chiacchio, F ^a   Compagno, L ^a   Durso, D ^a   Manno, G ^a   Trapani, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Combinatorial models; Hierarchy; Markov chains; Risk assessment; Spreadsheet modeling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL TOOL; COMBINATORIAL MODELS; DFT THEORY; DYNAMIC FAULT TREES; DYNAMIC TOOLS; GENERAL DYNAMICS; GENERIC CLASS; HIERARCHY; INDUSTRIAL FIELDS; MAJOR HAZARDS; MARKOV CHAIN; MODULAR APPROACH; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; SAFETY ASSESSMENTS; SPREADSHEET MODELING; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS; TIME DEPENDENCY; TIME-DEPENDENT ACTIVITY;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PLANT EXTRACTS; RATING; SPREADSHEETS;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 80052501908     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2011.06.014     Document Type: Article

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